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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

I see Dad spelled out in the last one, but you have to squint to focus. D's are hammers and tacks that drift off to ZZZZZ's at the end. The wreckerator got tired after all that hard work

I also saw Farther at my local grocery store a couple of years ago. And another one that had a saw on it and the wording was "Happy Fever Saw" which made absolutely no sense at all. When confronted with the error, the wreckerator said, "But I copied it right from the decorating book!" OMG.....THERE'S your problem! There's a Wreckerating Guide for grocery stores, guaranteed to be featured on Cake Wrecks!

#6 looks like it says Happy Farther's Gay. That's a whole nother discussion... And are all of these cakes made here in the USA? Father is a word we all learn to spell relatively early in school. What the heck?? and I love the sad ballons on the empty cookie. They look so disappointed

i have decided that we can no longer blame all cake spelling errors on ESL people. Have you looked at the run-of-the-mill speller in the US recently? You can't can't even blame it on the Put-a-piping-bag-in-their-hands-and-the-brain-freezes syndrome. It's everywhere. (And we won't discuss my spelling errors, thank you. It's all the fault of learning keyboarding skills on a typewronger.)

GOT to love the miniscule " *HAPPY* Dad's Day!" flotsam (could they SPARE it??) on the cookie. Even the "balloons" look sad and /or depressed.Actually, they remind me (a worrisome lot) of the "folks" (for want of a better word) in the Munch painting "The Scream."@Debbi: Yes, they ARE croutons. I tasted one.Trust me, they were the best part.

This just in: There has been an as-of-yet unconfirmed report that the objects on cake #1 may in actuality NOT be croutons, as previously reported. Sources are now tentatively referring to these objects as "Hash-Browned Potatoes." Stay tuned for further (and hopefully more tasty) developments.=^-.-^=

As for the Crouton Controversy of Farther's Day 2013 - I had initially given the bakers the benefit of the doubt and thought the items in question were bits of cheesecake (like the kind you find in cheesecake ice cream). I know, you're all going to say "What were you thinking?!" but, in my defense, it simply never occurred to me that croutons would go on a cake....clearly I'm not cut out to be a wreckerator ;)

No, the last one says "DAD", all right. The baker simply did the bows of the "Ds" in blue nails, or caltrops, or something. It's kind of hard to tell because it's so off-center, but it's pretty clear if you stare at it long enough.

SuBee mentioned (indirectly) the concept of a "Farter's Day". I say that while there IS a distinkt and reasonable possibility that a lot of folks would take this idea an run with it (as far away as possible), I just can't see it catching on, at least, not in the "Hallmark" sense. This is an injust world, in so many ways. ((sigh)) But, if there WERE to BE such a thing, the card companies could make mucho deneiro, as ANY day has the potential! Hmmm...that just gave me an idea: how about a "Diarrhea Day"? SURE, it would catch on!! Someone could really CLEAN UP with THAT idea! (and talk about "running" with an idea!) Where's that good old, red-blooded, entrepeneurial American spirit?? Huh? HUH?? =^u.u^=

Because not quite enough people have commented on the crouton situation yet, I thought I'd add my thoughts. (I know, you're excited about that, aren't you?!) I didn't think they were croutons; I thought they were cubes of marinated tofu. I don't think that's any better, though, and the weeping raspberries seem to agree with me.

I'm really struggling with the barbed wire cake with the screwdriver. Now if it was a SHIV, maybe it could be one of those great "Happy Farther's Day, Welcome Home, Jailbird" cakes, but the screwdriver just ruins it.

So the morning shift baker finished up her shift, leaving a few cakes unfrosted for the afternoon shift to complete. She went off to do her grocery shopping before going home. She had picked up a box of croutons and was about to head to produce to get the fixings for salad when her phone beeped. It was a text message from the afternoon shift baker who was having trouble reading an order. So back she goes, now with a box of croutons in hand. Morning baker places her croutons on the counter andthen she and afternoon baker begin having a debate whether the box titled "Comments" on the order form holds the exact text the customer wants, or if it also includes instructions on what color that text should be. (I won't tell you who believes that the colors are not instructions but text to be included on the cake). Frustrated, morning baker leaves, (THIS IS KEY) leaving the box of croutons on the counter. Thirty minutes later, afternoon baker is moving on to frosting/decorating the Father's day Cakes, and sees the croutons on the counter with the other decorating items for the father's day cakes. Without even a hesitation, she starts adding the croutons to the cakes, I mean obviously, someone left those there with the other decorations, so surely they most go on the cake, right?

LMAO!!! My ex-husband always said Farther and I'd correct him... he would get really angry about it. Then one day he signed a card for his niece "Uncle (x hubs) and Aurntie Tina." I was horrified. Glad to know his language exists out there somewhere!!